MASS TIMES AND READINGS FOR HOLY WEEK AND EASTER

March 28th 2026

PALM SUNDAY, 29, 9am, 10am, 12 noon, 6.15pm

Mt 21:1-11,  Is 50:4-7, Ps 21, Phil 2:6-11, Mt 26:14 – 27:66

Mon 30, 7.30am, 5.15pm:  Is 42:1-7, Ps 26,  Jn 12:1-11

Tues 31, 7.30am, 5.15pm:  Is 49:1-6, Ps 70,  Jn 13: 21-33. 36-38

Tues 31, 7pm, Chrism Mass, Is 61:1-3 .6. 8-9, Ps 88, Rev 1:5-8, Lk 4:16-21

Wed 1, 7.30am, 5.15pm: Is 50:4-9, Ps 68,  Mt 26: 14-25

Holy Thursday, 8pm: MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER Ex 12:1-8. 11-14, Ps 115,  1 Co 11:23-26,  Jn 13: 1-15

Good Friday, 3pm: CELEBRATION OF THE PASSION

Is 52:13 – 53:12, Ps 30,  Heb 4: 14-16. 5:7-9,  Jn 18:1- 19:42

Holy Saturday, 8.30pm: EASTER VIGIL

Gen 1:1 -2:2, Ps 103,  Gen 22:1-18, Ps 15,  Ex 14:15 – 15:1, Ex 15: 1-6. 17-18,  Is 55:1-11, Is 12, Rom 6:3-11, Ps 117, Mt 28:1-10

Easter Sunday, 9am, 10am, 12 noon 

Acts 10: 34 .37-43, Ps 117, Col 3:1-4,  Jn 20:1-9

TENEBRAE is at 9.30am on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.  Tenebrae and the three Liturgies of the Triduum will be live streamed at   https://scotland.op.org/live/.  We will pray the STATIONS OF THE CROSS with parishioners from St Michael and All Saints at 6.30pm on Good Friday. We begin at St Michael’s and make our way along the north side of the Meadows finishing here at St Albert’s.

During the University of Edinburgh vacation, there will be no 7.30am Mass, Monday to Thursday, and no 12.30pm on Friday.   The last 7.30am Mass is on Wednesday 1st April and it will resume on Monday 20th April. 

MASS TIMES AND READINGS FOR HOLY WEEK AND EASTER

Edinburgh Catholic Chaplaincy

The Catholic Chaplaincy serves the students and staff of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University and Queen Margaret University.

The Catholic Chaplaincy is also a parish of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh (the Parish of St Albert the Great) and all Catholic students and staff are automatically members of this parish.

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